Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

For this week’s photo challenge BEYOND I’ve chosen a shot made from heli over Manhattan, Twin Towers still standing …
photo by frizztext, click on the picture, to enter my galleries on flickr
P.S.:
we’ve been there 1997 – the things changed so much since then…
– it was hard to get a helicopter ride, not only to get the tickets, the whole waiting room was filled up with a crowd having tickets (at least 100 persons, I think): but only 4 persons each flight! So my wife had to look very deep in the eyes of the door dragon to come through (I was her quick shadow); though the weather was foggy we had much fun… I heard after September eleven it is forbidden to fly directly over the top of the skyscrapers?
related: Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
+

Beautiful photo. I was here to watch the towers being built in the 70s, and then sadly to see them fall as well. 😦 Like you, I once took an amazing sea plane ride right through the middle of Manhattan. Amazing. And you are right – those rides are now prohibited.

they didn’t have the courage,
maybe they had the anxiety,
that terrorists would try to destroy
the same buildings again?
Some architects had the proposal
only to build very flat buildings
in the future everywhere…
P.S.:
I like your nice beyond-version:
“future and beyond…”!

Another fantastic picture, as usual… Love your ways to ‘translate’ the photo challenges into something so deep, so emotional… It does leave us thinking.. ‘beyond’… ‘what it…’ memories… a powerful tool! Congrats on the beautiful photo! 😮

Frizz,
You are also making me want to go to my photo album. As others have mentioned, I took a small plane ride around NY many years ago. It didn’t occur to me until I viewed this post and read the comments that it can’t be done anymore!

A great photo. I am called to mind also an incident when a helicopter tour downed in the harbour, just weeks before some lady friends of mine were visiting on a birthday treat. I went to the Algarve a short while later and discovered that the lady who was killed was related to people in my walking group over there. Strange old world, isn’t it?